Position: Creative Arts & Worship Pastor
Church: Port City Church
Location: Muskegon, MI
Website: weareportcity.com
ABOUT THE CHURCH
Port City Church is a high-energy nondenominational church in Muskegon, Michigan, with two campuses: Cloverville and McGraft, and a third campus launching in 2027. The mission is to “Reach our City, Restore the Broken, and Release people with Purpose.” Port City emphasizes helping people meet Jesus, grow in authentic community, discover their gifts, and live on mission. Its worship gatherings include music and biblical teaching, with Sunday services at both campuses and an additional Thursday service at Cloverville. Port City is a family-focused church that helps people of all ages find connection, support, and meaningful next steps. Through ministries for children, students, adults, recovery, baptism, small groups, and serving, the church creates pathways for people to grow in faith and community. Port City is theologically conservative while valuing unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, and charity in all beliefs.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Creative Arts & Worship Pastor leads worship at the main campus while providing directional oversight to additional campuses. This role shapes worship culture, develops teams, executes creative vision, and ensures spiritually meaningful, excellent, and aligned weekend environments across the church.
The ideal candidate brings strong character, vocal leadership, emotional maturity, and a low-ego, high-trust posture. They pursue excellence without perfectionism, welcome feedback, develop others, and thrive as a self-starting leader in a fast-moving, vision-driven culture.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Primary Campus Worship Leadership
- Serve as the primary lead worshiper at the main campus.
- Plan and execute weekly worship gatherings with excellence and intentionality.
Collaborate closely with senior leadership to ensure worship environments align with the overall vision and series direction.
Multi-Campus Directional Leadership
- Provide directional oversight and vision to worship teams at two additional campuses.
- Ensure consistency of culture, standard, and spiritual depth across all three locations.
- Develop and empower campus worship leaders to lead with growing autonomy.
Team Development & Culture Building
- Actively recruit, audition, and develop musicians, vocalists, and technical creatives.
- Build a culture where volunteers are known, developed, and released into ministry.
- Lead regular team gatherings focused on both skill development and spiritual formation.
Creative Arts Oversight
- Oversee the creative and production elements of weekend gatherings.
- Maintain a high standard of quality across audio, lighting, visual, and staging environments.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the worship experience with a detail-oriented, iterative approach.
To apply, please fill out the fields on the next page and attach your resume. Your completed application will be reviewed in a timely manner.
Skills Required
- Serve as primary lead worshiper at the main campus
- Plan and execute weekly worship gatherings with excellence
- Provide directional oversight and vision to worship teams at additional campuses
- Recruit, audition, and develop musicians, vocalists, and technical creatives
- Develop and empower campus worship leaders to lead with autonomy
- Oversee audio, lighting, visual, and staging production elements
- Build volunteer culture focused on development and spiritual formation
- Collaborate closely with senior leadership to align worship with vision and series direction
- Strong vocal leadership and ability to lead congregational worship
- Emotional maturity and a low-ego, high-trust posture
- Ability to develop others and welcome feedback
- Self-starting leader who pursues excellence without perfectionism
What We Do
Rukes Group is a ministry-focused staffing and consulting firm that helps churches and nonprofits find leaders aligned with their mission, team, and organizational culture. Its Precise Assessment Process customizes searches, evaluates candidates, and identifies “Culture Carriers” for ministry roles. The company also provides specialized consulting in structure, strategy, and mission, while supporting candidates in pursuing their next ministry opportunity with confidence.
